Installing MatLab on Snow Leopard

Getting myself up to speed on MatLab for this fall’s classes, the activation fails on Snow Leopard with some ugly error message. Fix is easy — in the Java Preferences app on your system, make 32-bit Java the default. All is well after that.

Details on the matlab support site

3 comments

  1. Casey says:

    You just made my day! i have been booting up windows via parallels to run matlab cuz of that stupid error.

    thanks a bunch!

  2. john says:

    glad to help. see my other post on path length restrictions, that will nail you on osx as well. good luck!

  3. Tyler says:

    I have been trying to get this working for a while. Thanks a bunch!

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